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Slaying Lyme Disease Fatigue- Getting The Correct Nutrients

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:00:31 +0000

Lyme Fatigue STINKS!

Probably one of the worst symptoms of Lyme Disease is that “dead” feeling, the constant fatigue which can make getting through each day a real hassle. There are many reasons why fatigue is present.

Even with people who are Lyme-Free (should I say those few who are probably left Lyme-Free for now) can have fatigue. Fatigue is becoming more and more prevalent in our society. It all goes along with the increase of autoimmune illnesses. I think fatigue is basically a combination of your body fighting hard to detox nasty substances, the immune system being suppressed (by invaders or by other means), lifestyle not quite right, and nutrient deficiencies.

Today I went for a run and I raced to the grocery store because I had a “hankering” for LIVER. I bought some calf liver (Yeah, I think VEAL is cruel but the liver byproduct is a way better choice then grown up cow, simply because the toxins in the calf liver are far less that that of “daddy cow”). I went home and blended it up (RAW) with some tomato juice and parsley. The vitamin C in the juice helps me assimilate the iron in the organ and parsley is also a nice leafy green that is a great iron source.

I call this the PERRY PUKE SHAKE, although in many countries eating organs is quite natural and those who like eating organ meat will have no problem with this. So it makes me want to puke a little, but the end result is worth it.

The nutrients in the liver are unparalleled. You can buy glandular to treat adrenal exhaustion, which sometimes is the reason why you could be so tired. Food can be medicine and when you drink something like the PUKE SHAKE (without puking, of course) it can be quite beneficial. In fact, it’s one of my running secrets.

I had this crazy Brazilian coach who told me to do this. Remember Mary Decker Slaney, the runner who fell off the track at the LA Olympics when she was clipped by the barefoot athlete? Well, he was her coach also! He was convinced that this was so delicious. While I felt otherwise, it was actually helpful.

Don’t get me wrong. I adore my smell sensitive vitamin kit. It’s the reason why I don’t have to worry about being anemic anymore OR have to give myself B-12 shots in the butt which was misery because everyone acted like I was doping. I use it daily to get what I need, but if you’re fighting disease and/or exercising a lot or having huge amounts of stress, then adding in SUPER FOODS is quite important. Everyone talks about the berries, but don’t forget the protein!

So if you’re having fatigue, cover your butt on the nutrient side, get the smell sensitive vitamin kit and start implementing it. In the meantime start thinking about getting creative with foods.

If you really feel bad, sticking to cooked vegetables might be helpful. You get nutrients but your body doesn’t have to work as hard to digest them. During my ordeal I had a Chinese Medicine Doctor put me on a regiment of cooked down soups and vegetables for two months! It worked. It got me out of the hole with the help of other alternative therapies from the conventional therapy that left me 90% dead.

Food can also be used to help absorb toxic pile up in the gut. Have you ever craved rice while getting Lyme treatment? You’re not alone. I used to eat an entire pot of rice. At the time I wasn’t sure what I was doing. I learned a long time ago to trust my instincts on everything and looking back I was simply trying to eat something to help absorb the waste in my gut. I added Physillium Husk and a Bentonite Clay to the intake. The clay is great for absorbing. The Physillium Husk does the same, but it has a cleansing effect as well in the digestive track.

Physillim Husk Powder by Planetary Herbs **Go for the powder (it’s the strongest, no caps on this one)

Bentonite Clay by NOW (I used to make a little mixture of these Physillim and Bentonite powders..works nicely).

Another good one is Activated Charcoal. Most of you have heard of this before.

Activated Charcoal From Requa Mfg. (This is the one I’ve used. Good product)

Activated Charcoal From Source Naturals

WARNING: Do not take these products with your nutrients (like meals or supplements) as it pulls the good stuff out also! Separate them a few hours apart and never take this together. And don’t forget to drink loads of water with this. And it’s best to do it on an empty stomach.

*There is also something called Welchol, which is basically a prescription that is used for people with Cholesterol problems. Welchol binds not only to cholesterol but also to neurotoxins from die-off. Again, I suggest the natural approach before you “GO THERE” but it is an option. If you are feeling poisoned and your doctor hasn’t mentioned this…SHAME ON THEM. (This is what I’m taking about when I say empowering yourself, once you know what you can do, then you can make sure you get the RIGHT CARE, so get Lyme Disease Coaching if you want to take control of your life).

Don’t let these other Lymies get you down.

Boy, I got the worst hate mail yesterday. This guy was basically telling me (in the same breath) good for you for beating lyme but that’s what it’s called, remission. Yet, another person trying to Rain On My Parade. (This parade, by the way, isn’t slowing down.). He also gave me an earful about politics. (Hey, I’ll admit I don’t keep up with it. It’s depressing. I’m here to help, and I’m certainly not going to take this personally. If someone shows up at my house and asks me to give up my guns, then that will be another story…).

He basically told me I was part of the problem. He started by saying, “sorry to castigate you” and I’m thinking….oh here we go with another overly educated jerk who is not only sick (probably because he refuses to believe he can be helped) but he wants to dwell on all the problems regarding care for Lyme victims. And I guess he’s just sooo smart that he knows everything about it and that success just doesn’t make sense to him.

Taking action is one thing, but being a jerk who writes people emails like this is not a helpful thing and it ensures that he will probably live with LYME FOREVER.

“Elmo” kiss my fast, strong, white arse, seriously. I’ll send you a photocopy of my butt and my gold medals in 2012. There are more and more people (other than myself) who are getting better! It takes a little elbow grease and an open mind… so get over it. I doubt “Elmo” was even at the Lyme-Autism conference.

Sure that spirochete is a sneaky monster and smart…but damn, look at our own immune systems! We’re designed by God. Science can’t even explain how sophisticated our bodies really are. So don’t be depressed!

“Elmo” told me I should do something positive like tell people to send money to the doctor who is doing research in his basement. I say good call. Here’s his address (you can mail him a check).

Dr Alan Macdonald
50 Route 25a
Smithtown, NY 11787

Hey, I told you when I decided to go for it that I cut out the “lyme world” and I do mean it. I made the best decision I possibly could and even until this day I still don’t see myself as a victim. Let’s face it, part of my problem was because of me. I ignored the bite. I didn’t get help. And I literally “ran” myself into the ground in a brutal sport. It was bound to happen. If not Lyme, something else, some other cootie.

So is it wrong for me to want you to get healthy?

I don’t think so.

Don’t any of you let any of it get you down.

Health is mind, body, and soul. We are always concentrating on BODY. Part of my major healing was that I “exercised my demons.” I had a lot of hate in my heart from being tossed around as an athlete. Did I tell you my agent is from NYC and he didn’t even return my call once he found out I had Lyme? Ouch, that hurt. But playing sports can make you tough. In my book I write about some very strange occurrences on nights when I thought I was going to die and with the process of removing these poisonous emotions I actually had healing reactions (HERTZ) and major recovery episodes. I’m saying this was only part of it, but just think of this journey as a way to make ALL THINGS RIGHT in your life.

We need a new term. “Lymie” Stinks

I hate this term. I hate it so much I don’t want to mention it in my newsletter. I never saw myself as Lymie and hopefully you don’t either. How about we come up with something better? You can email me your suggestions and I will use the best suggestions from now on.

But for now I like: Tick Slayer! Yeah, that’s it. From now on all “Lymies” are now “Tick Slayers” if you choose to be. This is your official knighting ceremony.

Feels better, Right? Tell me about it! Yes, it just so happens to be the name of my book, but honestly I am a TICK SLAYER. I’m not a LYMIE. Never was…never will be.

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Get Your Blood To Fight Back!

admin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:06:28 +0000

I hope this email finds you well.

This will be a quick newsletter as tomorrow I’ll be heading out to Colorado Springs for altitude training. I’ll be exactly 4 blocks from the Olympic Training Center and staying with a classmate of mine from West Point. I even have a few training partners lined up while I’m out there.

Just recently I had a doctor contact me and he was telling me that he thought my background in athletics helped me with my recovery from Lyme Disease. Well, I told him I agreed, but my mental state was probably more of the reason for my success. Finding answers to all of my questions surrounding my situation and my desire to be 100% again were why I got back to this happy place. Many people don’t really realize that I had become emaciated, thin as a rail, and as fragile as a 100 year old woman.

First Long Run Of The Season

Training in the rain! If I look exhausted, it’s not Lyme related…I just ran 7 miles (fast) through mud.

When it comes to fitness, you lose a good 80% of your fitness if you don’t work out for two weeks. Elite athletes almost never take more than a week off when they are in the middle of training. And when we get some time off at the end of the year, which is usually a month, starting back up is just as difficult as it would be had we not worked out in months.

I know I’ve written this in newsletters before, but you HAVE to have physical goals. You must condition your body to withstand disease, VIRUSES, and other cooties. If you have to start walking 5 minutes a day, do it. That was actually a goal of mine years ago, just to walk 5 minutes in one day. You have to start somewhere, so get going.

This brings me to another topic and it’s ripe for discussion….

As you know I have mentioned earlier that I will write a newsletter about the herbs I think are most beneficial for putting the assault on Lyme. The assault is not just from using compounds (chemical or natural) but getting your body to respond to the infection and attack it back.

Most people with disease need serious immune system support.

Almost every blood test I look at there is a serious problem with white blood cells like:

Neutrophils, Lymphocytes (B and T cells), and Monocytes.

Sometimes the biggest problem with taking antibiotics is not just the problems that start in the gut, but also the fact that these agents are rendering white blood cells incapacitated and unable to do their job.

Eventually to be “Lyme Free” and to live 100% normally, you’re going to have to train your body to deal with infections (Lyme being just another problem).

A lot of products proclaim to pump up your T cells and or even B cells. This is great; however the communicator cells are really Macrophages and Neutrophils (noticeably low on every blood test from a person with Lyme Disease and probably so with any person with any type of disease).

Here’s a cool video animation of a macrophage ingesting bacteria (this is how a healthy body functions): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiLJl3NwmpU

The communicator cells are like Generals or other officers telling the troops how to attack and what to attack!

Now during my illness I took Beta Glucan nonstop to pump up the “communication” because I knew I had some problems with immunity and I knew what my pathetic blood tests were looking like.

Beta Glucan is known for pumping up the immune system (“modulating it”). But looking back I was probably taking a bunch of garbage (but something was better than nothing). After all there are many kinds of Beta Glucan (soluble vs. insoluble) and then there is the issue of where the Glucan is harvested.

I’ve been suggesting to some people I’ve coached to try a new type of Beta Glucan (harvested from tree fungi) and it is the insoluble kind…..the good kind. So far I’ve had very good reports and I have put myself back on this as well. The reason for my doing so is for several reasons:

1) the flu going around and I don’t want it,

2) I’m training hard and I want to continue training hard,

3) and this has the potential of helping me run faster with less effort.

If my immune system is “fierce”, then more of my body is freed up to take care of the processes that help me perform. I’ve been noticing this turn around quite significantly, but I want to continue on this path.

Native American Sacramental Medicine

The 1-3 Beta Glucan (3 Beta D Glucans) I discovered is harvested from cone bearing trees by Native Americans. (It literally is a very powerful tree fungus.) Furthermore it creates a pan-systemic modulation of T-Cells when ingested. The viability of these particular cells is increased by as much as 4000% within 20 hours after taking this type of Glucan, called Tsiag-ha.

It also contains (probably) the highest source of germanium in nature. Germanium is an oxygen catalyst and one of the most powerful free-radical scavengers found in nature.

It’s quite literally good for everything from Chronic Fatigue to Fungal Infections, Platelet Recovery to Auto-Immune Diseases, and even Bacterial Infections. Read about more uses here.

The product is called “Defense” and not only does it contain this awesome Tsiag-ha “herb” a potent Beta Glucan, but it also contains Black Cumin, Muscadine, Allicin (the heart of Garlic) and Stablized Rice Bran.

Why this mixture is so powerful?

Well besides being able to increase T Cells as much as 4000% within 20 hours, reduces pain and inflammation substantially.

Black Cumin inhibits infections and can reduce allergies by 90%.

Muscadine is full of antioxidants more powerful than any berry on earth.

Stablized Rice Bran contains essential fatty acids, trace minerals, amino acids, PhytoNutrients, glyconutrients, and over ninety powerful antioxidants.

And Allicin (the Heart of Garlic) reduces blood pressure, kills microscopic organisms, poisonous bacteria, parasites and fungal infections, aids in preventing neoplasm, reduces high blood cholesterol, removes heavy metals and other toxins, scavenges and removes free radicals, repairs immune system cells by providing high sulfur compounds, and increases blood circulation.

**(I believe many forward Lyme docs are starting to put their patients on Allicin because of the properties of this substance- it’s STRONG and GOOD for you. At the L.I.A. conference one of the vendors was promoting the uses of Allicin for people with Lyme).

…and Allicin is one of the compounds I used during my illness.

The Defense formula contains over 90,000,000 molecules of this specialized Beta Glucan in every serving. No other single source comes close.

I truly believe this is something people should start taking no matter what stage of “the fight” you’re in. And I would take it with this aloe so as to absorb it as best as possible because taking your supplements with aloe will help absorption.

See ya later Tick Slayer,

Perry